We at the Housatonic River Initiative know that a real low impact clean up of the river is probably impossible. Why? Because GE dumped way over a million and a half pounds of PCBs into the Housatonic. Even the State of Massachusetts “give away” plan to GE is not low impact. Knowing this situation HRI [...]
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State Adopts GE’s misleading stance
MA, GE and the EPA Letter to the Editor by Mickey Friedman 2/9/2011 Don’t be fooled by the State of Massachusetts’ response to GE proposals for the Housatonic River, (the Eagle, Feb. 7) they’re just falling back into old bad habits. Years ago, the representative for the State Department of Environmental Quality and Engineering used [...]